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Einsi Stolz (actually: Yvonne Louise Stolz , first marriage Yvonne Louise Ulrich ; * May 1, 1912 in Warsaw ; † January 18, 2004 in Vienna ) was the wife and manager of the operetta composer Robert Stolz .

Life

Little is known about Einzi Stolz's childhood and youth. According to their own statements, the family lived mainly in French-speaking Switzerland; their father is said to have been a writer and philosopher. At the time when Robert Stolz, who was almost sixty at the time, met his future (fifth) wife in Paris, Einzi Stolz was only 26 years old, married to a British businessman and had a one-year-old daughter. The studied lawyer was friends with numerous German-speaking emigrants in Paris, who gave her the nickname "Einsi". According to the composer Paul Abraham , she was called that by everyone because she was the only one who could (and did) help the impoverished artists. Thanks to her husband, Einzi Stolz not only had wealth, but also excellent relationships and organizational talent. She rescued Robert Stolz, who was interned after the outbreak of war, by bribing an official from the French camp of the Colombes Stadium near Paris and also procured the coveted papers for entry to New York.

After the amicable divorce from her English husband, Einzi Stolz lived with Robert Stolz in the USA and supported him in his professional activities as a composer and conductor. When Stolz was finally divorced from his fourth wife Lilli, the two married in Reno in 1946 . After returning to Vienna, Einzi Stolz remained Robert Stolz's manager. After his death in 1975 she saw it as her life's work to keep the composer's work present. Through various appearances on television (in galas, entertainment and music shows), in which she reported about her husband, she finally became a media figure herself and achieved high popularity. In 2002 the City of Vienna awarded her the Golden City Hall Man in recognition of the work of Robert Stolz and for her upright political stance . She rests at the side of her husband Robert Stolz in his grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 24).

literature

  • Robert and Einzi Stolz: Hello you. Robert Stolz and his century . Recorded by Aram Bakshian Jr. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 1980 (as a paperback with the title "The whole world is sky blue", Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Semrau: Robert Stolz . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg-Vienna-Frankfurt a. M. 2002, p. 120 ff.
  2. ↑ Mourning in Vienna: widow legend "Einzi" Stolz is dead . news.at, January 28, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Pride, singles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proud, Yvonne Louise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian widow of Robert Stolz
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2004
Place of death Vienna